May 21, 2013
Install Tomcat 7 and Java 1.7 on CentOS 6 RHEL 6
In this post we will cover how to install the Apache Tomcat 7 and jre 1.7 on CentOS 6 and RHEL 6. This process doesn’t use the rpm’s from the Redhat repositories, but uses the latest tar balls from Apache and Oracle. We will also be using service accounts to control Tomcat and its processes. Download latest Tomcat from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi. Version 7.0.40 is the curent... read more
May 9, 2013
How to Fix Flash Player Crashing on Firefox 20
After a recent upgrade of Firefox to 20.01 Adobe Flash player starting crashing on sites. After Googling around I found that most were saying to upgrade or downgrade Flash. Tried them all with no change until I ran across a suggestion to install the debug version of Flash which did the trick. Download the Windows Flash Player 11.7 Plugin content debugger (for Netscape-compatible browsers) (EXE, 17.21MB)... read more
May 2, 2013
Disappearing Space on Windows 2008 R2 Caused by System Volume Information and Shadow Copies
Recently ran into an issue where a 400 GB drive was showing low space but looking at the files found that only 20 GB was being consumed. Upon checking on the drive turned on show hidden on the server in a folder called System Volume Information. The System Volume Information folder is a hidden system folder that the System Restore tool (XP, Vista/7/8) uses to store its information and restore points, it... read more
Apr 9, 2013
How to clear ARP Cache in Windows 2003 / 2008
There are many tools and different ways to troubleshoot TCP/IP network issues. One of those steps could involve clearing the ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) cache. One area where clearing the ARP cache can help is if you are seeing web pages not loading, ability to ping certain IP addresses. Clearing the ARP cache is easy to do. Open a a command prompt Start > Run > type cmd and click OK. Enter in... read more
Mar 21, 2013
How To Fix RHEL / CentOS 6.4 LDAP MD5 Cert Error
Recently we updated to the latest RHEL 6.4 which caused LDAP to stop using our MD5 signed certificate. This was due to the nss-3.14.0 update that now deems MD5 as unsecure. This change caused authentication of users using LDAP to fail. If the account had a local password (such as root), they were able to login. Since creating / updating the MD5 certificate was not an immediate solution for us we had to... read more
